This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men.
--Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
2. To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. ``Some befooling drug.'' --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
befooling — be·fool || bɪ fuËl v. trick, deceive … English contemporary dictionary
befooling — noun derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent • Syn: ↑stultification • Derivationally related forms: ↑stultify (for: ↑stultification) • Hypernyms: ↑derision … Useful english dictionary
Befool — Be*fool , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Befooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Befooling}.] [OE. befolen; pref. be + fol fool.] 1. To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive. [1913 Webster] This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Befooled — Befool Be*fool , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Befooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Befooling}.] [OE. befolen; pref. be + fol fool.] 1. To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive. [1913 Webster] This story . . . contrived to befool credulous… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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circumvention — Synonyms and related words: avoidance, avoiding reaction, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, buck passing, calculated deception, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defense mechanism, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dodge, duck,… … Moby Thesaurus
deception — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, airy nothing, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, autism, befooling, bluff, bluffing, bubble, burial, burying, casuistry, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chimera, clouding, color, coloring,… … Moby Thesaurus
delusion — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, acting, affectation, agnosia, airy nothing, apparition, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, autism, bamboozlement, befooling, block, blocking, bluff, bluffing, bubble, calculated deception,… … Moby Thesaurus
